Wide Awake, by Robert Bober, The New Press, 2012​Ingratitude, by Ying Chen. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998; Univ. of California Press, 1999.Childhood, by Patrick Chamoiseau. University of Nebraska Press, 1998; excerpted in The New Yorker, December, 1997.The Stranger Next Door, by Amélie Nothomb. Henry Holt & Co., 1997.Corruption, by Tahar Ben Jelloun. The New Press, October 1995; paperback October 1996.Night Departure and No Place, by Emmanuel Bove. Four Walls Eight Windows, July 1995.

Selected Non-fiction:

Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon, by Juliette Volcler, The New Press, 2013.Racism Explained to my Daughter, by Tahar Ben Jelloun, The New Press, 1999; paperback 2006.The History of Young People in the West, volume II, edited by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt. Harvard University Press, spring 1997.The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians and the Pig by Claudine Fabre-Vassas, Columbia University Press, 1997; paperback 1999.The Craft of Zeus: Textile and Text in the Greco-Roman World by John Scheid and Jesper Svenbro. Harvard University Press, 1996; paperback 2001.The New Ecological Order by Luc Ferry. University of Chicago Press, July 1995, paperback 1995.The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy. Harvard University Press, 1994; paperback 1996.Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya by Nathan Wachtel. Univiversity of Chicago Press, 1994.The Broken Dice and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance by Ivar Ekeland. University of Chicago Press, 1993; paperback 1996. *( Village Voice "Best Books of the Year").The Taste for Beauty by Eric Rohmer, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Renoir on Renoir: Interviews with Jean Renoir. Cambridge University Press, 1990.Picasso: Collected Writings, Introduction by Michel Leiris (edited book and translated selected texts). Abbeville Press, 1989.cUniversity of Chicago Press, 1989, paperback 1999. *(Excerpted in The Longwood Reader, 1993, Simon & Schuster.)Joze Plecnik: Architect 1872-1957, edited by François Burkhardt, Claude Eveno and Boris Podrecca. The M.I.T. Press, 1989.Asphyxiating Culture and Other Essays by Jean Dubuffet. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1988.